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Tony Dutzik

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What Comes After the Auto Bubble?

By Tony Dutzik | May 2, 2017 | No Comments
Vehicle travel in the United States has experienced a resurgence in the last two-and-a-half years, following an unprecedented decade-long per-capita decline in driving. Low gas prices are likely a big reason why; recent increases in incomes and employment as well. But an additional factor has been relatively unexplored: the effect of changes in credit markets on vehicle purchasing and ownership.
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Of Shipyards and Golf Courses: Infrastructure and Economic Nostalgia

By Tony Dutzik | Dec 6, 2016 | No Comments
Politics has an indispensable role to play in infrastructure decision-making. There is and can be no objective definition of a society’s infrastructure “needs” -- rather, they are shaped by economics, culture and the conscious expression of a society’s values and priorities through the political system. At this time of intense political conflict and renewed interest in infrastructure investment, what are people out there saying about those priorities?
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Toward Zero Carbon Transportation: Technology and Institutional Change

By Tony Dutzik | May 19, 2016 | No Comments
Cross-posted from the Frontier Group.  As the parents of two teenage boys, my wife and I are required to bore them periodically with stories of how things were When We Were Your Age. One of those stories relates to food. My wife has often told the kids that she did not know what a whole […]
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We Can Do It: A Zero-Carbon Transportation System Is Possible

By Tony Dutzik | May 18, 2016 | No Comments
Cross-posted from the Frontier Group. The Paris Climate Agreement, approved by world leaders last December, represented a bold commitment to prevent the worst impacts of global warming – a commitment that must now be followed by action. Meeting the agreement’s target of limiting global warming to no more than 2° C (and ideally no more […]
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Why Federal Efforts to Link Transportation to Climate Change Matter

By Tony Dutzik | Apr 26, 2016 | No Comments
Cross posted from the Frontier Group.  Twenty-five years ago this spring, I was a fresh-faced undergrad at Penn State enrolled in a course on existential threats to civilization, including climate change. We knew then (and yes, with a reasonable degree of certainty we did know) that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were […]
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Choose Your Own Utopia: What Will We Make of Driverless Cars?

By Tony Dutzik | Oct 2, 2015 | No Comments
Cross-posted from the Frontier Group.  A century ago, a new transportation technology burst onto the scene that threatened to disrupt everything: the car. Thinkers of the day, along with boosters of the new technology, dreamed grand dreams of the utopia it would bring. General Motors’ Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair (shown in the amazing […]
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Is Raising the Gas Tax Really the Answer?

By Tony Dutzik | May 6, 2015 | No Comments
Cross-posted from the Frontier Group … In the 1920s, Great Britain debated the future of its Road Fund – a pot of money raised from vehicle excise taxes and devoted exclusively to road repair. Then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill opposed the fund, arguing that, if drivers paid taxes dedicated solely to roads, “It will be only […]
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Despite Problems, Boston’s MBTA Should Continue to Expand

By Tony Dutzik | Feb 12, 2015 | No Comments
2nd inbound orange line track to Boston isn’t even cleared of snow between Oak Grove & Malden! #MBTApocalypse #MBTA pic.twitter.com/hQV9oEbtNq — Cory Thomas (@coryt3) February 11, 2015 Cross posted from the Frontier Group. As you may have heard, we’ve been experiencing a few public transportation problems here in Boston of late. Record-smashing snowfall, coupled with extreme cold […]
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The Suburbs Aren’t Dying — They’re Growing Differently

By Tony Dutzik | Jan 26, 2015 | No Comments
Cross-posted from the Frontier Group. Sommer Mathis said much of what needed to be said about the recent round of “the suburbs are back, baby!” stories on housing trends, including this analysis from Jed Kolko, housing economist at Trulia.com, and the related commentary from Matt Yglesias at Vox. Mathis argues that the concept of a battle for supremacy between cities and […]
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DOTs Now Have No Excuse for Ignoring Changing Transportation Trends

By Tony Dutzik | Aug 21, 2014 | No Comments
As report titles go, you could hardly get less sexy than “NHCRP Report 750: Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 6: The Effects of Socio-Demographics on Future Travel Demand.” But buried within this wonky new document from the Transportation Research Board are ideas that can — and should — upend the way local, state, and federal […]
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Let’s Do the Time Warp Again: U.S. DOT Fails to Get Travel Forecasting Right

By Tony Dutzik | Mar 3, 2014 | No Comments
The U.S. Department of Transportation seems to be stuck in a bizarre time warp.  For nine years in a row Americans have decreased their average driving miles. Yet U.S. DOT’s most recent biennial report to Congress on the state of the nation’s transportation system, released last Friday, forecasts that total vehicle miles will increase between […]
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What Did UCLA Really Discover About Millennials’ Reasons for Driving Less?

By Tony Dutzik | Nov 5, 2013 | No Comments
Tony Dutzik is senior policy analyst with Frontier Group and co-author of a recent report on shifting transportation habits. Members of the Millennial generation drive less than they did a decade ago. That much is clear. But are Millennials driving less simply because of the economy? Or are they driving less by choice, because of […]
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